On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 22:02 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: > > > Its "probably" best done as an external gui program which we can > > communicate with via D-Bus / stdio or some means. This would allow it to > > suit your database without hard-coding input assumptions in gschem. > > > > Alternatively - someone could propose a means for arbitrary guile / > > external programs to specify a simple UI to gather required parameters. > > (Like PCB does with its exporters). > > yes, please! I started on this work a year or more back but got a bit > sidetracked. I'm really happy with how it has worked out for us in PCB. > I have just a few minor additions that I think would make lots of cool > stuff possible in gschem.
In theory, we could pull in guile-gnome - and code GTK gui from scheme code! I'm not sure how well it might work in practise, as I've never tried! PRO: Don't re-invent a UI description language -> richer, more purpose built feeling GUIs. CON: Code may be more complex - do we want the scheme "addons" to have to know about GTK? I wonder if some nice compromise could be found using glade? > Note that gschem already has some functions to let you do some simple > GUI stuff from user scheme code. The big one thats missing as far as > I'm concerned is the attribute[1] editor. I think that will open the > door to full GUI support for various simulators and other backends in a > pretty simple way. i.e. you'd have a scheme file which says that your > simulator does these N different types of analysis. For each of them, > here are the options. Then the attribute editor would take that > attribute list and automagically build a set of dialogs for setting > everything. This is one way, which can be powerful - however it does limit the scope of UI design. > -Dan > > [1] Someone please help me find a better name. When I say attribute > editor I mean something analogous to the attribute editor dialog that > the PCB GUI HID's have and it has nothing to do with gschem attributes. The explanation was useful - I got lost for a moment thinking "we have an attribute editor"! I think its similar to "PPD" for printers, and could be viewed as a generic object properties UI. (We could get lost again if people start thinking of component attributes as "properties" though!) Peter _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
